Steve Nix is a member of the Society of American Foresters and a former forest resources analyst for the state of Alabama. In the biology of pine trees, the cone is actually not the seed at all, but a ...

MY YARD IS FULL of eastern white pine trees, and every three years or so, it is full of pine cones. This is one of those years. Pine cones have fallen all over the yard, the sidewalk, the driveway.

I’m pretty sure the first breath I took when I was a baby on Cape Cod was filled with the scent of pitch pine. And it’s there my lifelong love affair with the evergreen began. But in Connecticut, the ...

Q: What kind of evergreen tree is this? A: The Arbor Day Foundation has a plethora of information on native North American trees, including how to identify, plant ...